Behind Aisha's Veil

Longing

Nurul was silent.

"Descending to others does not guarantee you higher, vilifying others does not guarantee you better, Insulting others does not guarantee you greater self-worth. Do not forget if we are condescending and insulting then we are actually the owner of the low vocabulary and despicable it. What we despise may be that he is nobler in the eyes of God."

"What looks good is not necessarily good, what looks bad is not necessarily bad, do not easily judge someone, sometimes the cover can be inversely proportional to the content." Aisha smile.

Nurul is made non-pinkish.

"It's not wrong that doctor Anita Zaidan did not continue your ta'aruf process, instead of blaming her why shouldn't you just introspect yourself? find out what makes Zaidan not want to marry you."

"Why should I find out? The reason for that was definitely because this woman had thwarted him." Nurul looked at Anita with annoyance.

Anita looked startled, in contrast to Aisha who just smiled as she approached Nurul closer.

"Humans do prefer to seek justification, rather than admit and improve."

"So it's better to be busy fixing yourself than to be busy blaming others. I'm sure if you know exactly if Dr. Anita wasn't the cause because I'm sure you know they knew a few months ago."

Nurul was immediately embarrassed. He looked around where everyone saw him.

Nurul sees Aisha and Anita at a glance and leaves with her face that looks very upset, followed by the eyes of the people who are there.

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Anita hugged Aisha tightly.

"I'm sorry" he said many times.

"What should I forgive? What are you wrong?" ask Aisha wonder.

Anita releases her embrace, she looks at Aisha while wiping her tears.

"That's me first, who wouldn't let Alvian off on you."

"Now I felt what you felt then, humiliated before everyone, humiliated and humbled. I'm sorry."

Aisha smile.

"Good people are not people who never make mistakes, good people are people who make mistakes and fix them. And that's who you are now. Your treatment of me I've forgotten, otherwise how can we be best friends like this?"

Anita wiped her tears.

"I'm so lucky to know you, thank you for forgetting all my mistreatment of you, for forgiving me and teaching me so many things."

***

Nurul was bowed when Amira looked at him angrily.

"I told you everything so you wouldn't expect my sister anymore because she'd made her choice by steadily choosing Doctor Anita."

"But you went to Anita's doctor and got angry with her?" Amira looks very disappointed.

Nurul shed tears.

"This attitude of yours makes me even more certain that my sister's decision not to marry you is very appropriate."

Nurul who was very sad with Amira's words only lowered his head.

While Nela, Nurul's sister, Amira's best friend, was silent, she could not say anything because she knew that her sister was wrong.

"I'm just disappointed. Disappointed about his decision not to marry me, disappointed because he prefers the woman who just migrated than me. I was hoping that he would be my priest. I've fallen in love with him too." For the last sentence Nurul said it timidly.

"It's natural that you are disappointed, but it would be better if you choose to introspect yourself, why Zaidan prefers the newly emigrated woman over you."

"And for your feelings. May God send a better man than my sister" said Amira.

Meanwhile.

Zaidan who was waiting in the car looked very upset, he just stared at the screen of his phone looking at a row of Anita phone numbers. The number was only in her cell phone contact a few days ago, but she never once tried to call or text her

But this time, it feels like he called Anita and apologized for what Nurul did to her, but he knows he can't do it, before marriage the two are still not mahram and still have to keep a distance until the ijab qobul recited, and he knows for sure that the law of the opposite sex talking by phone without any important purposes is illegal. But if there is an urgent need and the absence of khalwat then the law can be. 

Zaidan then chose to send him a message, he then wrote his first message for the future wife.

'It happened this afternoon because of my mistake. Ii'm sorry. I beg you to expand your patience, practice your sincerity, lay down your chest, pray to Him, Rest assured. Everything's gonna be fine. Zaidan's.'

Anita who had just checked the patient took her phone because there was a message coming in.

His face smiled instantly when he knew that Zaidan was the one who sent him the message.

His heart that had been broken because of the incident earlier in the afternoon became calm instantly, he re-read the message repeatedly to make him completely forget the anxiety of his heart.

***

Alvian awakens in the middle of the night to realize that his wife is not next to him, he looks around the room but does not find Aisha there.

He then moved from his sleep, with still half sleepy he looked for the whereabouts of his wife outside the room.

Faintly he heard the voice of his wife was teaching, Alvian immediately approached the direction of the voice where it turned out Aisha was in the small mushalla of their house.

Aisha is very solemn teaching, sounding melodious and shahdu Although with a slightly vibrating voice and interspersed with her sobbing.

Alvian watched for a moment, he stood stunned to feel that his wife must be sad to remember the late Abah.

He walked up to her, slowly sitting beside Aisha.

Realizing the presence of her husband, Aisha immediately stopped teaching while wiping her tears.

"sorry. Did I wake you?" aisha asked in a loud voice.

Alvian shook his head slowly.

"What's wrong?" alvian asked gently while getting closer to his wife.

Aisha looked down.

"I dreamed Abah, she came to see me," she answered withholding tears.

Alvian hugged Aisha, letting her cry in her arms.

Aisha started sobbing. Alvian tightened his embrace.

"My longing for Abah was satisfied when I dreamed Abah came to see me, hugged me and kissed me, she also held my stomach and was happy for my pregnancy."

"I was very happy, but suddenly I woke up and realized it was all a dream, not real." Aisha is sobbing.

Alvian tried to calm his wife.

"Abah's departure makes me understand that the most painful longing is for the dead."